The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for much of Maryland that remains in effect until Tuesday evening. More details county by county

A brief period of snow started midday Tuesday and will be followed by sleet and freezing rain that continues into the evening. At 1 p.m., radar showed snow in Baltimore, but it was actually freezing rain. With the temperature at 31 degrees, icy spots are possible.

A wintry mix to include sleet and freezing rain is expected into the evening. Temperatures will then go up overnight into Wednesday, and the precipitation will change to all rain. Temperatures could reach the upper 40s Wednesday.

But late Wednesday night, cold air will move in again, and the rain will transition to snow. There's a potential for snow accumulation by Thursday morning.

Thursday's high temperature will not likely reach above freezing.

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BODY MASS INDEX AND BLOOD PRESSURE. WE ARE ALREADY GETTING INTO THE THICK OF OUR NEXT ROUND OF WINTER WEATHER. SNOW IS STARTING TO MOVE IN. WE SEE THE COMPLEXITY OF THE STORM ALSO UNFOLDING. HALF OF WASHINGTON HAS SNOW AND THE OTHER HAS. SLEET -- HAS SLEET. IT BEGINS TO LINEUP A BIT AS WE GET TO HOWARD COUNTY. FURTHER UP NORTH , AROUND HARTFORD IN CECIL COUNTY, SOME SPOTS REDUCING TO MODERATE SNOW. ALL GETTING LIKE SNOW AT THIS POINT. TO THE SOUTH OF US, NOTHING FOR ANNAPOLIS ROAD NOW, JUST CLOUDS ALONG THE EASTERN SHORE. WE ARE UNDER THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING AND LATER TONIGHT. HERE IS WHAT WE CAN EXPECT. LOOKS LIKE WE CAN SEE THE WINTRY MIX TODAY. SNOW IS POSSIBLE THURSDAY. SUNNY AND COLD BY FRIDAY. 30 DEGREES NOW DOWNTOWN. 32 IN PIKESVILLE. HIGHS TODAY BETWEEN 30 AND 37 DEGREES. CLOUDY, OF COURSE. A WINTRY MIX. THAT WILL LATER CHANGED TO RAIN LATER TONIGHT. BETWEEN NOW AND AT :00 P.M., THE WINTRY MIX AND THEN SLEET, RAIN, AND FREEZING SNOW -- BETWEEN NOW AND 9:00 P.M., THE WINTRY MIX AND THEN SLEET, RAIN, AND FREEZING SNOW. LATER TONIGHT, 8:00, STARTING TO GET SOME RAIN IN BALTIMORE. TEMPERATURES WARM A BIT. WE COULD SEE POTENTIAL FREEZING RAIN IN NORTHERN BALTIMORE COUNTY AND CECIL COUNTY. EVEN NORTH OF HOWARD COUNTY. 11:00 TONIGHT, TEMPERATURES WARM ENOUGH TO SUPPORT RAIN. IF THERE IS ANYTHING OUT THERE, SUCH AS THE SURFACE OF YOUR CAR STILL 32 DEGREES, YOU COULD STILL GET SEMI'S ON ANY SURFACE THAT IS STILL AT AND BELOW FREEZING. WE ARE LOOKING AT MOSTLY RAIN TOMORROW MORNING. LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT, WE WILL GET A BURST OF COLDER AIR. WHATEVER STARTED AS RAIN WILL TURN OVER TO SNOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. WE CAN SEE THAT PANNING OUT THURSDAY DURING THE DAY. NOT ANTICIPATING A LOT OF SNOW TODAY. BUT LATER IN THE WE, BY THURSDAY, WE COULD SEE A COUPLE OF INCHES AROUND HERE. I THINK TWO TO FOUR INCHES COULD BE POSSIBLE.

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Here's a who's who among potential candidates who could vie to replace Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who announced March 2 that she will retire at the end of her fifth term. Her announcement opens the way for what could be a raucous fight next year to replace her in Maryland's first open Senate seat in a decade.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the longest serving woman in the history of Congress and a tough, no-nonsense lawmaker who rose to the top echelon of the powerful Appropriations Committee, announces she will retire in 2016.

The 78-year-old five-term Democratic U.S. senator from Maryland announced Monday she will retire at the end of her term in 2016. Mikulski said she has no health issues, has plenty of energy for service and feels liberated by her decision.

She said she would support the Democratic nominee to fill her spot, and she said don't be surprised if we start hearing from those potential candidates soon.

Mikulski's retirement announcement touched off a statewide political scramble, and she knew it.

"Maryland has a lot of talent, and they'll be telling you about it within the next 10 minutes," Mikulski said.

It actually took about three hours. U.S. Rep. John Delaney, D-District 6, sent up the first public test balloon on Twitter.

Political analyst Matthew Crenson said most members of Maryland's congressional delegation are likely interested, including U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes, D-District 3, and U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-District 7.

"He has had a lot of fundraising experience and he knows a lot of donors, and given that advantage, he may decide to abandon his position in the House and take a chance on being elected senator," Crenson said.

A representative for Rep. Dutch Ruppersburger said, "It's safe to say he would consider it, but it's far too soon to speculate on a run."

Crenson said the list should start with former Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley.

"He's already out there campaigning. He has raised some money. He has been elected twice successfully as governor of Maryland. He has won two statewide elections," Crenson said.

Other Democrats on the list include Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who on Monday evening dodged a question of whether she wants the position.

"There's plenty of time to speculate and to plan. Today is my day to contemplate and appreciate and to show gratitude for everything Senator Mikulski has meant to me personally and for Baltimore and our state," Rawlings-Blake said.

On the Republican side, which is riding high after Gov. Larry Hogan's surprise win in the November election, there's potentially former Gov. Bob Ehrlich, as well as Rep. Andy Harris, who 11 News was told is taking a hard look at running.

"If a Republican is going to win, that Republican is going to have to be aggressively moderate," Crenson said.

"We're relevant again in Maryland, so with an open seat, I think we'll have a competitive race in 2016 for the U.S. Senate race," said Joe Cluster, the executive director of the Maryland Republican Party.

But he said it's not just Mikulski's seat on which they are keeping an eye.

"There potentially will be two, three, maybe four congressional seats vacated if certain Democrats run. You have a couple of congressman on the Democratic side who are thinking about running, and if they do, that opens the seat in that district, too," Cluster said.

Potential Republican candidates will also be fighting a bit of an uphill battle thanks to Mikulski, who's giving her party a very powerful parting gift: a presidential-year election.

"Presidential electorate tends to be much more Democratic with many more minority group members, and younger people especially," Crenson said.

By 2016, it will cost at least $3 million to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland.

Police said eight cars collided just before 4 p.m. Monday on York Road at Shawan Road.

The preliminary investigation indicates that a vehicle was traveling northbound on York Road approaching Shawan Road. The vehicle was believed to have been speeding when it struck another vehicle and started a chain-reaction.

Six people were taken to area hospitals. None of their injuries are believed to be life-threatening.

Police closed York Road between Shawan and Schilling roads during the investigation.

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A bizarre situation unfolded about a month ago in Baltimore in which people were paying rent to a landlord who claimed he was helping fill the need for affordable housing, but there were serious questions about the living conditions inside, as well as who actually owned the homes.

The landlord involved in the case has since accepted a plea agreement from the city.

In early February, a sign in the window of a house on North Montford Avenue in east Baltimore said furnished rooms were for rent with utilities included. But tenants living in the house didn't get the newly remodeled space they said they were promised.

"We try to sleep upstairs. We turned the light on and the freaking ceiling comes down," said a tenant who only gave her name as Karen.

Residents were still stunned when city inspectors went there and declared the place unfit and dangerous. The I-Team's camera was rolling on Feb. 2 when tenants were forced out.

"You can't come in here," Rafferty said as city officials were trying to vacate the home. "You can't do this. I got the permit for this."

"He would do some very minor patch and paint-type repairs to the property, and then he would go find tenants and move them in," said city housing official Jason Hessler.

Rafferty had a valid permit that allows people to stay at the home, but the city said the permit was issued in error and that the place was uninhabitable.

"How in the world can you even say that?" Rafferty questioned as the Montford home was shut down.

It isn't the only property where Rafferty rented rooms. City workers boarded up seven other properties, claiming all of them were supposed to be vacant, including a house neighbors told the I-Team about on North Patterson Park Avenue. Rafferty denied having anything to do with it, but Roosevelt Sydnor said he rented a room there from Rafferty, who gave him a warning.

"The back room upstairs? That's the room he told us to avoid. He said, 'Whatever you do, don't go in that room,'" Sydnor said.

But he did anyway.

"What I saw was messed up. The roof was caving in. (There were) two totes full of water," Sydnor said.

The rundown houses weren't the only problem. State records show Rafferty is affiliated with a company that does own two of the houses, but as for some of the others, there's an interesting twist.

"Actually the owners of the properties were deceased, and we can't connect him to the properties legally in any way," Hessler said.

"What do you say about the city's allegation that you are basically going around, finding homes in which the owners are deceased, and you're basically just taking over the properties?" I-Team reporter Barry Simms asked Rafferty.

Rafferty replied, "I got them through the tax sales. All of them are tax sale properties. It happened to be, like, five or six of them were deceased, and that's what was taking a long time, too, to close on them."

He declined to show the I-Team documents backing that up.

Rafferty finds tenants outside an east Baltimore methadone clinic, on social media and by word-of-mouth, Simms reported, and he rents rooms for about $450 to $500 a month.

The city thought he was taking advantage of vulnerable people, but he disagreed.

"A lot of places won't allow them to rent," Rafferty said.

But who actually owns the home where Rafferty lives?

"The mayor and City Council of Baltimore own it," Hessler said.

"No, no, no. I own this property. I own this property, square out," Rafferty told Simms.

The city is making sure the properties it boarded up remain vacant.

Rafferty had a court hearing Tuesday in which he accepted a plea agreement from the city with regards to two of the houses he acquired. He pleaded guilty to two charges of failure to obtain required building permits.

The judge sentenced Rafferty to a suspended jail sentence in which he'll serve seven weekends in jail. He'll also have to do 160 hours of community service and be on supervised probation.

A BIZARRE SITUATION UNFOLDING IN BALTIMORE. PEOPLE PAYING RENT TO A LAND RECORD CLAIMING HE IS HELPING THE NEED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. NOW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE HOMES AND WHO OWNS THE HOMES. BARRY SIMMS INVESTIGATES. THE SIGN IN THE WINDOW SAYS ROOMS FOR RENT, FURNISHED, OUT TILTS INCLUDED. -- UTILITIES INCLUDED. TENANTS LIVING IN THE HOUSE DIDN'T GET THE NEWLY REMODELED SPACE THEY SAY THEY WERE PROMISE. WE TRY SLEEP UPSTAIRS AND TURN THE LIGHT ON AND THE FREAKIN' CEILING COMES DOWN. RESIDENTS WERE STUNNED WHEN CITY INSPECTORS CAME BY AND DECLARED THE PLACE UNFIT AND DANGEROUS. THE I-TEAM CAMERA WAS ROLLING WHEN TENANTS WERE FORCED OUT. LIVE STRIKE FOR ONE DAY. I SCREWED UP AND I HAVE -- I'M RECOVERING ADDICT AND I PUT MYSELF HERE. ANOTHER GRAINING TENANT LIVES HER WITH HER 3-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER. SHE CONFRONTED THE LANDLORD LARRY RAFERTY. WE GOT KIDS! THINK ABOUT IT! CITY HOUSING INSPECTORS ACCUSE RAFFERTY OF RUNNING AN ILLEGAL ROOMING HOUSE. YOU CAN'T DO THIS. WE ARE VACATING. WHERE ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GO? HE WOULD DO MINOR PATCH AND PAINT TYPE REPAIRS TO THE PROPERTY AND THEN GO FIND TENANTS AND MOVE THEM? THE PERMIT WAS ISSUED IN ERROR THE CITY SAYS AND PLACE IS UNINHABITABLE. THE HOME WAS SHUT DOWN. IT ISN'T THE ONLY PROPERTY WHERE RAFFERTY RENTED HOMES. WORKERS BOARD UP SEVEN OTHER PROPERTIES CLAIMING ALL WERE SUPPOSED TO BE VACANT INCLUDING A HOUSE NEIGHBORS TOLD THE I-TEAM ABOUT ON NORTH PATERSON PARK AVENUE. HE DENIES HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT BOROUGHS DEVELOP SAYS HE RENTED A ROOM HERE FROM RAFFERTY WHO GAVE HIM A WARNING. THE BATHROOM UPSTAIRS THAT IS THE ROOM HE TOLD US TO AVOID. HE SAID DO NOT GO IN THAT ROOM. BUT HE DID. WHAT I SAW WAS MESSED UP. THE ROOF WAS CAVING IN. TWO TOTES FULL OF WATER. BUT THE RUN DOWN HOUSES AREN'T THE ONLY PROBLEM. STATE RECORDS SHOW HE IS AFFILIATED WITH A COMPANY THAT DOES OWN TWO OF THE HOUSES. AS FOR SOME OF THE OTHERS, WELL, THERE IS AN INTERESTING TWIST. ACTUALLY, THE OWNERS OF THE PROPERTIES WERE DECEASED AND WE CAN'T CONNECT HIM TO THE PROPERTIES LEGAL FLY ANYWAY. WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THE CITY'S ALLEGATION THAT YOU ARE BASICALLY GOING AROUND AND FINDING HOMES AND OWNERS ARE DECEASED AND YOU ARE KIND OF TAKING OVER THE PROPERTIES? I GOT THEM THROUGH THE TAX SALES. ALL WERE TAX SALE PROPERTIES AND IT WAS HAPPENED TO BE LIKE FIVE OR SIX OF THEM WAS DECEASED AND THAT IS WHAT WAS TAKING A LONG TIME, TOO, TO TRY TO CLOSE ON THEM. HE DECLINED TO SHOW US DOCUMENTS BACKING THAT UP. HE FINDS TENANTS OUTSIDE AN EAST BALTIMORE CLINIC ON SOCIAL MEDIA. HE RENTS ROOMS FOR ABOUT $450 TO $500 A MONTH. THE CITY THINKS HE IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE. HE DISAGREES. A LOT OF PLACES WON'T ALLOW THEM. AND YET ANOTHER TWIST. WHO OWNS THE HOME WHERE RAFFERTY LIVES? WHO OWNS IT NOW? THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE. I OWN THIS PROPERTY. I THEN PROPERTY SQUARE OUT. SORTING OUT THE ISSUES IS EXPECTED TO HAPPEN IN CIVIL COURT. BUT FOR NOW, THE CITY IS MAKE SURE THE PROPERTY IS BOARD UP REMAINS VACANT. FOR THE 11 NEWS I-TEAM, I'M BARRY SIMMS. BARRY TELLS HE HAS A COURT HEARING TOMORROW CHARGED WITH FAILING TO GET A BUILDING PERMIT FOR ONE OF THE PROPERTIES CITY HOUSING SHUT DOWN AND WITH NOT HAVING A LICENSE TO OPERATE

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Officer also indicted on felony theft charges

A grand jury has indicted a school police officer on charges of assaulting three students.

Fight with school police officer injures kids; Parents outraged

The 11 News I-Team obtains video of a violent scuffle between a school police officer and three middle school girls who had to be taken to a hospital. The girls' mother said they're outraged because charges against the officer were dropped, and her children were sent to alternative schools.

The 11 News I-Team obtains video of a violent scuffle between a school police officer and three middle school girls who had to be taken to a hospital. The girls' mother said they're outraged because charges against the officer were dropped, and her children were sent to alternative schools.

School surveillance video showed a physical altercation between Pulley and three female students. Pulley now faces one count of first-degree assault, three counts of second-degree assault and three counts of reckless endangerment.

One of the students, Diamond McCullum, appeared to shove Pulley in the video, then back off.

Pulley gave chase and used her police baton to allegedly strike Diamond several times, the video showed. At least blow one landed on Diamond's head, requiring treatment in an emergency room, authorities said.

Tashona Neals, Diamond's mother, spoke to 11 News about the injury when the incident was first reported a month ago.

"She had six stitches," Neals said. "No, I'm sorry, 10 -- four on the inside and six on the outside."

The city police union defended Pulley's action as reasonable use of force, saying Diamond was resisting arrest.

A city grand jury decided otherwise. Pulley was indicted on a felony assault charge for allegedly hitting Diamond and misdemeanor assault charges for allegedly using pepper spray on the other two girls while they were being restrained by another school employee.

The three girls were originally charged in the incident. Those charges were dropped.

The girls are still fighting suspensions and transfers. Their lawyer is Jered Jaskot.

"We are happy to see the start of justice being done to this officer," Jaskot said.

Pulley was also indicted Monday on felony theft charges. The charge was related to a separate incident that happened at Vanguard Collegiate Middle School in November 2014. Officials said Pulley took goods intended for the school to her personal vehicle.

Prosecutors said that in November, Pulley stole food that had been mistakenly delivered to the middle school. The food had been donated by the Maryland Food Bank.

Pulley was suspended without pay and barred from school property. Her lawyer disclosed that she is five months pregnant and is arguing for low bail.

The city schools CEO defended the officer's actions when he suspended the girls.

ITS ENTIRETY AND SEE HER CAREER THROUGH THE YEAR AND HOW MARYLANDERS ARE REACTING TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT AREA JUST CLICK ON. STAN: TONIGHT A BALTIMORE SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER UNDER INDICTMENT, ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS. DONNA: JAYNE MILLER IS LIVE FROM THE COURTHOUSE WITH THAT STORY TONIGHT. JAYNE: THE OFFICER WAS BROUGHT TO CIRCUIT COURT IN HANDCUFFS TO FACE THE CHARGES BROUGHT BY THE BALTIMORE GRAND JURY. THERE ARE TWO CASES. ONE, THE ALLEGED ASSAULT OF STUDENTS. THE OTHER, THE ALLEGED THEFT OF FOOD INTENDED FOR THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. WE CAUGHT A LIMB'S OF THE CITY -- A GLIMPSE OF THE CITY POLICE OFFICER JUST BEFORE FELLOW OFFICERS GAVE HER SOMETHING TO COVER HER FACE. SHE WAS TAKEN AWAY IN HANDCUFFS AFTER SHE WAS INDICTED FOR WHAT SHE ALLEGIANT LEAD -- ALLEGEDLY DID AT THE NORTHEAST BALTIMORE SCHOOL LAST FALL. CAMERAS CAUGHT THIS ALTERCATION WITH THREE GIRLS. ONE APPEARS TO SHOVE HER. SHE GIVES CHASE AND USES HER POLICE TIME TO STRIKE THE GIRL THREE TIMES. AT LEAST ONE LANDED ON HER HEAD, REQUIRING TREATMENT IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM. HER MOTHER TALKED ABOUT THE INCIDENT A MONTH AGO. SHE HAD 10 STITCHES, FOUR ON THE INSIDE AND SIX ON THE OUTSIDE. THE POLICE DEFENDED THE USE OF FORCE. A CITY GRAND JURY DECIDED OTHERWISE. SHE FACED MISDEMEANOR CHARGES FOR ALLEGEDLY USING PEPPER SPRAY ON THE OTHER TWO GIRLS WHILE THEY WERE BEING RESTRAINED BY ANOTHER SCHOOL EMPLOYEE. THE TEENAGERS WERE ORIGINALLY CHARGED IN THE INCIDENT. THOSE CHARGES WERE DROPPED. I'M JUST HAPPY THAT JUSTICE HAS STARTED TO BE DONE FOR THESE YOUNG GIRLS AND WE ARE GOING TO GET SOMEWHERE TO MAKE THIS OFFICER ACCOUNTABLE FOR HER ACTIONS. SHE IS ALSO CHARGED WITH FELONY THEFT. PROSECUTORS SAY THAT IN NOVEMBER SHE'S ALL FOOD THAT HAD BEEN MISTAKENLY DELIVERED TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL BY THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK. DURING THAT ALLEGED THEFT OF THE FOOD, SHE USED MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS TO HELP LOAD THE DONATED FOOD INTO HER OWN CAR. SHE IS SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY AND

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